RPGG Character Manager

RPGG Character Manager — your tabletop RPG characters and combat tracker, built right into RPGGeek's play-by-post forums. RPGG Character Manager is a companion for playing tabletop role-playing games by post on RPGGeek. It keeps your characters, their stats, resources, dice rolls and reusable text ready at your fingertips, adds a small toolbar directly above the forum reply box, and — for game masters — runs full combat with initiative and HP tracking. No more copying numbers back and forth, hunting for the right BBCode, or fumbling with the dice syntax. Everything you need to play lives one click away, exactly where you post. The extension is completely system-agnostic. There is no hard-coded Dungeons & Dragons logic, no fixed character sheet, no assumptions about which game you play. You describe your character out of small, reusable building blocks, so the very same tool works for Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, Pathfinder, Blades in the Dark, homebrew systems, or anything else played on the forum. WHY INSTALL IT Play-by-post games are wonderful, but they are also fiddly. Every turn you find yourself scrolling back to your character sheet to check a modifier, retyping the same speech or action formatting, working out what your attack bonus adds up to, and pasting dice notation into RPGGeek's roller. As a game master it is worse still: you are tracking everyone's hit points across encounters, keeping the initiative order straight in your head or in a scratch file, and manually applying every hit and heal. RPGG Character Manager takes all of that off your plate: - Your character's live numbers travel with you. Adjust hit points, spend a spell slot or tick off ammunition from a compact popup, and it is instantly reflected everywhere. - Real dice rolls are one click away. Pick a roll, press the button, and the extension creates a genuine RPGGeek server-side roll and drops the result tag into your post — the forum renders the actual outcome, with no way to fudge it. - Your favourite formatting becomes a button. Turn "italic speech", "bold action", stat banners and any other BBCode you reuse into one-click snippets that wrap your highlighted text or insert at the cursor. - Game masters get a complete combat runner: initiative order, turn tracking, per-combatant HP, conditions, and the ability to apply any dice roll in the thread straight to a target's health. - The right character loads itself. Link a character or campaign to the threads it plays in, and it is selected automatically the moment you open that thread. If you run or play even one ongoing forum game, this removes a dozen small frictions from every single post. WHO IT IS FOR - Players in ongoing play-by-post games on RPGGeek who want their sheet, rolls and formatting one click away. - Game masters who need to track party HP across sessions and run initiative without a scratch file. - Groups playing any system — mainstream, indie or homebrew — thanks to the system-agnostic model and shareable templates. - Anyone tired of retyping the same BBCode and dice notation into every forum post. PRIVACY FIRST The extension asks for a single permission — local storage — and nothing else. All of your characters, campaigns and settings are stored locally in your own browser. Nothing is uploaded, no account is required, there are no analytics, no trackers, and no external servers of ours. The only network traffic the extension ever makes is to RPGGeek itself, and only when you press the Roll button: it reuses your existing logged-in RPGGeek session to create a dice roll, exactly as the website would. Your data stays on your machine. HOW IT WORKS — THREE SURFACES The extension shows up in three places, each suited to a different moment of play. 1) THE CONFIGURATION PAGE (options) This is your workshop — the set-up-once place. Here you create, edit and delete characters and campaigns, define what they are made of, choose your theme, and read the built-in help guide. Everything you change here syncs live to the other two surfaces. 2) THE POPUP (toolbar button) The at-the-table companion. Click the toolbar icon to quickly change state mid-game: nudge a statistic up or down, tick a resource, or reset for a new day. For a game master, the popup becomes a full combat runner with initiative and turn tracking. 3) THE FORUM TOOLBAR (content script) A small toolbar the extension places directly above RPGGeek's post/reply box. It gives you one-click snippet buttons and a roll picker, so you insert formatting and post real dice rolls without ever leaving the message you are writing. All three surfaces read and write the same local storage and stay in sync live. Edit a stat in the popup and the options page sees it instantly; add a snippet in the options page and the forum toolbar updates immediately. THE CHARACTER MODEL A character is simply a name plus four kinds of components. This tiny, flexible model is what makes the tool work for any system. STATISTICS — a single number: hit points, armour class, an ability modifier, a save bonus, anything. A statistic can carry an optional "base" value (for example maximum HP) so a single Reset restores it, and you can choose whether it appears in the popup with quick adjust buttons. RESOURCES — a row of checkboxes for tracking limited things: spell slots, hit dice, ammunition, luck points, ki, inspiration. Set how many boxes there are, tick them off as you spend them, and optionally have them clear on reset. The popup shows a handy used/total count such as "2 / 4". ROLLS — a dice template that can reference your other components. Write "d20 + $DEX" and it resolves to "d20 + 3" using your current Dexterity. Supports full dice notation: NdM, plus/minus terms, and keep-lowest/keep-highest suffixes for disadvantage and advantage (for example 2d20l and 2d20h). SNIPPETS — reusable text a toolbar button drops into your post. A banner, a stat line, italic speech, bold actions — anything you …